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| 'Not practical to make voting compu |
| Guj law: 'Not practical to make voting compulsory all India'
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| INDIA
, 21-December-2009
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The Election Commission of India has said it would not be “practical” to extend Gujarat’s move on compulsory voting to all of India, but it is watching the situation “with interest”.
“The issue of compulsory voting has multiple dimensions, and it’s for Parliament to legislate on this. As for the Election Commission, we think it’s not practical to enforce 815 million-odd voters in a country as large as ours to compulsorily vote. Having said that, we would watch the Gujarat initiative with interest,” Chief Election Commissioner Navin B Chawla told The Indian Express today.
After getting the Gujarat Local Authorities Law (Amendment) Bill 2009 passed in the Assembly on Saturday, Chief Minister Narendra Modi had said the objective was to “bring the voter, rather than the political party, centrestage”, and to “strengthen democracy”.
K J Rao, former adviser to the Election Commission, said compulsory voting “is a welcome idea, but it remains to be seen how it is implemented”. On Saturday, Modi had said that “similar legislations had been adopted in as many as 32 countries”. Rao, however, said “it is only in 19 out of these 32 countries that it was actually enforced, and only some of them like Belgium had provisions for punitive action for a voter’s failure to cast his vote.”
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